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Baka Bible Dedication with SIL in Maridi, South Sudan

The history of the Baka Bible translation project has been filled with numerous struggles and victories. So many people, both missionaries and Baka men and women, have worked tirelessly on the translation efforts. Despite the many interruptions and setbacks over the past thirty plus years, the Baka New Testament and Genesis was printed at the end of 2016 and a Bible Dedication service was planned for March 2017 in Maridi by SIL International. SIL South Sudan director Jackie Marshall-Ringer shares “We are using MAF more and more these days as road travel is now generally quite insecure in South Sudan. We really appreciate MAF’s servant heartedness with the Baka dedication with their helpfulness in arranging charters for our people to get to Maridi and also for the free transportation of the Baka New Testaments from Juba to Maridi which is a special gift to the Baka community and church.”

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A Typical Day in Telefomin, PNG

Join the Twin Otter P2-MFU, piloted by Brad Venter and Richie Axon, flying out of Telefomin, Papua New Guinea. Brad, who also is MAF PNG’s Crew Training Manager, shares some snapshots from a typical day flying out of Telefomin. According to Brad, this was “basically a pretty average/normal day!“

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VH-WMC – A new training experience for pilots in Mareeba

Since its avionics upgrade (with the installation of an Aspen EFD-1000 Primary Flight Display) which was completed in March 2017, the Cessna 172, VH-WMC, is the only training aircraft in Mareeba equipped with touch screen GPS and autopilot; preparing pilots for higher level operations.

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VIPs and Medevacs (Timor Leste)

For pilots in Timor-Leste their passengers are often medevac patients. However, on this particular day, passengers also included a number of VIPs.

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Arnhem Land Kids love sports!

MAF recently had the privilege of assisting Arnhem Sports to fly in many students from around the region to participate in the big Sports Carnival.

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Conquering Kokoda in Support of MAF

What do you get when you mix a small group of MAF supporters and the infamous Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea? Answer: A group of muddy, sweaty, tired, yet enthusiastic trekkers who raised around $60000 to assist the ministry of MAF.

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Anytime, anywhere, outreach!

Through ongoing relationships and invitations from the Yolŋu people themselves, the ministry of Homeland Outreach continues to have an important place in the wider vision of MAF in Arnhem Land.

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PNG Pastors Cross the “Tech Gap”

MAF Technology Services (CRMF) run IT training courses to equip pastors and church workers in PNG with basic computing skills to help them spread the Gospel.

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Connecting Rural Health Services in PNG

Deo Mondo works for MAF’s Learning Technology Services (in PNG known as CRMF), connecting remote locations and health services to each other via radio.

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Women for Women: Treating Burn Victims in Bangladesh

A team of seven plastic surgeons, nurses, and anesthesiologists from Women For Women travel on MAF’s float plane to and from the Emirates Friendship Hospital, a ship docked on a char – river islands formed from sedimentation – in northern Bangladesh to perform plastic surgeries for a week on 53 women and children burn victims.

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PNG: Sepik River Medevac

Paul Woodington drops other weekend ministry plans to save a woman with complications from a birth in the eastern Sepik River area of Papua New Guinea.

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Selling the Sofa for 30 Years with MAF

The Shout from God Rune and Maria Karlsson were called to the mission field with a loud, crystal-clear shout from God that could not be ignored. It wasn’t a call to just any mission doing any work. God said to go with Mission Aviation Fellowship. It was hard to say no. The Swedish couple married […]

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A brand new Cessna Caravan arrives for service in Mareeba, Queensland

Ferry flight pilots, Dylan Fast and his wife Val flew the epic 9 day journey from Kansas USA to Mareeba Qld to deliver MAF’s new plane for service.

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Flying Back to War Torn Villages

MAF fly Mende Nazer (a former slave), Baroness Caroline Cox and their team throughout South Sudan. We are privileged to partner with them as they serve on the ground in war-torn areas and do advocacy work in the UK and elsewhere for the people of Sudan and South Sudan…

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A True Light in the Dark for a Remote Tribe

Gerhard and Brigitte Stamm take a MAF plane, a canoe, and trek to reach the Bikaru people deep in the jungle of Papua New Guinea where some have now come to know Christ…

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A Day in the Life of a Twin Otter

MAF PNG pilots Jason Marsh and Brad Venter fly the Twin Otter MFT all day starting in Telefomin base and ending in Mt. Hagen before flying home to Goroka. The day includes multiple locations and flying cargo – including building materials for a church and produce for market – and a full plane load of passengers, many who have never flown before…

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Flying Shoeboxes

Read about pilot Dallas Dersken’s first had experience of seeing Operation Christmas Chid in action as she flies Samaritan’s Purse into Mongolia…

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The biggest welcome

The community at Junkaral are forever grateful and put on a wonderful celebration to commemorate the reopening of their airstrip which means the villagers will now be able to quickly and safely fly people in and out of their village using MAF services…

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The Yindi “Big one” Aircraft

Since its transfer from Uganda and restoration, the ‘Yindi’ (Cessna 208 Caravan) Aircraft has been utilised in many ways and is a huge benefit to the Arnhem Land program. Check out the many ways its being used to be blessing

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When God has other plans

When pilots Dallas and Michael were delayed by a sudden and thick fog, it became very clear it was because God needed them to hang around for a while

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